Accessible Graphics: Semantic graphic description in PDFs for visually impaired people
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Alireza Darvishy
- Project team : Marziyeh Bamdad, Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hutter, Felix Schmitt-Koopmann, Chuqiao Yan
- Project budget : CHF 361'008
- Project status : ongoing
- Funding partner : Innosuisse (Innovationsprojekt / Projekt Nr. 108.047.1 IP-ICT)
- Contact person : Alireza Darvishy
Description
The goal of this project is to research and develop deep-learning based methods to automatically extract the data visualized in a chart, in order to generate a semantic description of the chart graphics for visually impaired readers using their screen readers.